Well, who among us hasn't tried this approach? Unfortunately for this Russian man, he got stuck three floors down:

"An eyewitness reported to the regional rescue service that there was a man in the chute ... The rescuers' crew found a man, who was stuck at the fifth floor, in the garbage disposal," a spokeswoman for the emergency services said.

Pictures released by the emergency services showed the glum-looking man sitting helplessly in the chute before he was cut out.

It was not immediately clear what prompted the man to make such a desperate attempt to flee his girlfriend.